UNITED NATIONS, Dhu-AlQa'dah 20, 1437, August 23, 2016, SPA -- North Korea on Tuesday warned that joint military exercises between South Korea and the United States are pushing the situation on the Korean Peninsula "to the brink of a war" and asked for an urgent meeting of the U.N. Security Council, according to AP. In a letter to the council president, North Korea's U.N. Ambassador Jan Song Nam accused the United States of "creating the danger of war" with the annual drills which began Monday. Jan said in the letter that the situation on the Korean Peninsula "has become unprecedentedly instable (cq) due to the introduction of nuclear strategic bombers, anti-ballistic missile system of Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) and other strategic assets by the U.S. to the Korean Peninsula and its vicinity." He said the Security Council had previously "unjustifiably ignored" several requests by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, the country's official name, to put the U.S.-South Korean exercises on its agenda. The ambassador warned that if the council again ignored the North's request to discuss the exercises, it will not only give up its responsibility for maintaining international peace and security but become "a political tool" of the United States. --SPA 00:24 LOCAL TIME 21:24 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/w